Re: SSL3 on OpenVMS V8.4-2L3

On 2024-08-20, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

On 2024-08-20, jeffrey_dsi <jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com> wrote:

We recently updated a customer to OpenVMS V8.4-2l3 and SSL3 v3.0-13
after many conversations with VSI as to which version of SSL to run.
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We have a cron job that produces an xml file and uses sftp to push it to
the VMS system. In the script it did a "cd pipeline_data" which was a
system logical for where the file needs to go. This doesn't work as SSL
doesn't appear to understand logicals. I had to change it to "cd
/lda105/pipeline_data" to get it to work.
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This breaks my rule that no script/com file should have a real device
name except for sys$manager:logicals.com. I put a remark in the
logicals.com to remind me of the new dependency if that logical changes.
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Can you create a command procedure that looks up the logical and
writes out a temporary sftp command procedure containing the hardcoded
current definition ?
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That way, there's no permanent file containing the hardcoded definition.
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Oops, sorry, ignore that. I missed the bit where you were pushing it
_onto_ the VMS system.

However, have you tried playing with the cd parameter to try and
force a lookup (for example by trying a leading "/" or something
that looks VMS-like such as "cd PIPELINE_DATA:" ?

Simon.

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